Damage Formula (PSO2)
Damage Composition and Variance
Damage Composition
PSO2's damage is divided into parts: "Normals, Mag, Special Abillities, etc damage"; "Weapon Elemental Attribute damage"; and "Weapon Damage". In the case of Techniques, "Weapon Elemental Attribute damage" is not applicable.
Damage variance only occurs in the "Weapon Damage" section. For this reason, there is no damage variance in the bare-handed strikes and the bare-handed technique casting.
Thus the minimum damage a weapon can do is no less than 10%, no matter how bad the conditions are, and the highest damage of weapons can be cannot exceed 90% of the damage variance even under the best conditions, and vice versa.
Maximum Damage + Criticals (Criticals are shown as blue numbers in-game):
Damage under the best conditions:
Damage under the worst conditions:
As seen in the figure above, the damage variance ratio is 10-90% for Weapon performance, thus the damage variance in the total damage is smaller. Since Techniques do not have Weapon Elemental Attribute damage, you can easily see the damage variance than you would normally with Striking and Ranged damage types.